Originally Posted by
VintageTTfan
Thank you so much Lattz for looking this up. It sounds like a spy novel....not a bike making story. I know that politics have always played a big part in sport though. I could believe most of it almost except the very last part. It makes a great story though.....do I see the first Lo Pro movie here??? The Swiss cheese reference is fitting and I am wishing I had some pumpernickel right now to go with mine.
While it was interesting to read the story (as its really like a spy novel and to finally find some info on the wheel) i also got a bad pppfff no way taste on the not so happy end. I have never heard of olympic teams dying by testing a new wheel. If it happened it would have had a huge media attention even back then. Or if not that, then the punishment the engineers got from the state for the failure. In SU people were most likely killed/tortured/whatevered for smaller things than what this sounds. But i'll try to educate myself on this also because its interesting if fake or not plus im still curious about the wheel itself.